Abandoned object detection is one of the most practically useful areas of computer vision due to its application in automated video surveillance systems for the detection of suspicious activities that might endanger public safety, especially in crowded places like airports, railway stations, shopping malls, movie theatres and the like. An abandoned object is defined as one that has been lying s...

Mobile agents and mobile computing have grown in importance recently. The SupervisorWorker pattern is an architectural pattern that helps architects solving the problem of protecting the mobile agent from leakage and tampering. The fundamental MasterSlave Pattern is widespread and heavily used in traditional applications. The SupervisorWorker pattern inherits many of the Master-Slave pattern’s ...

The aim of this study was to identify psychosocial work characteristics associated with long sick leave in a large population of male Japanese employees in multiple workplaces. We examined various psychosocial work characteristics (job overload, job control, supervisor support, coworker support, support by family and friends, role ambiguity, role conflict, intragroup conflict and intergroup con...

In this paper, conformal invariant gravitation, based on Weyl geometry, is considered. addition to the gravitational and matter action integrals, interaction between vector (entered in geometry) vector, representing world line of independent observer, are introduced. It shown that very existence such an selects exponentially growing scale factor solutions among cosmological vacua.

Using survey data from 240 employees working in a variety of organizations, the authors examined the relations among commitment to the supervisor, leader-member exchange, supervisor-based self-esteem (SBSE), and relationship and substantive supervisor-subordinate conflicts. They found affective commitment was negatively related to both types of conflicts; perceived lack of alternatives commitme...

The Schengen information system (the SIS) is an EU large scale IT system created as a compensatory measure following the abolition of controls at internal borders within the Schengen area. The SIS allows competent authorities in Member States to exchange information which is used for performing controls on persons and objects at the external borders or on the territory, as well as for the issua...

The rise of virtual reality and augmented reality provides brand new way of interaction with digital information. However, virtual reality immerses the users in simulated world with scarce connection with the real one. Augmented reality merely overlays virtual objects over real ones with no specific concern about the interaction in between. By understanding the environment, mixed reality is cap...

conclusions lack of supervisor support can result in psychological distress leading to symptoms experienced by the employees. results the results showed that there was a significant internal correlation between supervisor support with physical symptoms and psychological distress (p < 0.05). regression analysis indicated that supervisor support significantly reduced the effect of psychological d...

this research compared ratings of task performance and contextual performance from three different sources: self, peer, and supervisor. participants were service industry employees in the service industries in yogyakarta, indonesia. a sample of 146 employees and 40 supervisors   from the service industries provided ratings of task performance and contextual performance. the results indicated th...